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The Klamath News WEATHER NEWS Cooler High Ml Low 34 Midnight 40 ' 24 hours to p. m. . ,00 ' Season to data 1. 11 PICTURES! Associated Prw TiltmiU. NEA Tslephe to and II local aewepletur and an graving atafi provide Mawa and Harald taadara with a eompnhenslv photoarsph la service. IN THE SHASTA-CASCADE WONDERLAND Normal precipitation I.M Last year to data -.13.10 Vol. 18, No. 107 Price Five Cents KLAMATH FALLS, ORE., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 1941 (Every Morning Except Monday), , In Ths Day's News Br THANK JENKINS YUGOSLAVIA ilgni with the axis. On th basis of what tha cen sors hava permitted to become public, aha a great to permit transport of German war sup plies, hospital equipment and wounded through her territory. ' Rlbbentrop, the nazl foreign mlnUter, aolemnly "pledges" Prlnc Paul, the Yugoslav re gent, that axis troops will not violate Yugoslavia's frontiers. rS tha surface. Judging entire- ly by what the censors have let get out, without having read tha email type clauses, not know ing what la In the back of nazl minds. It looks like the Yugo slavs hava made what an enthus iastic salesman would describe as a swell deal. ' Intelligently cynical readers pf th news will keep their finger crossed and wait to sec what happens. ryWO new rumors: . Soviet war materials are reported today to be flowing Into Turkey. Russian armies and naval forces facing the Germans along th Bulgarian and Ru manian borders are reported as -being strengthened. It LOOKS Ilka a showdown might be approaching In the Balkans. KJIOST of tha fighting today seems to be on the strike fronts In America. In Chicago, AFLers are going back to defense work at the In ternational Harvester plant and ClOera are seeking to prevent them from doing so. There are police report of roving goon 'sauads. i. .At BetlUam-Sylvania), 'where CIO I striking because employees (egged on by the boss. the CIO charges) started organiz ing; an Independent union and demanding bargaining rights. auto are .overturned, etc., strikers seek to prevent work- ten who want to work from entering th Bethlehem steel plant which has a billion and a 'half dollars of detent orders. iTHZ public Is puzzled. i It wants to do the right thing by labor, but thinks with a war on our hands PRODUC TION OUGHT TO GO ON while 'the problems of labor and man agement are being threshed out. ; 'T'HE public Is saying appro 1 kn,iu.iw a nir 1 "When th EMERGENCY 'comes, can we say to Hitler: 'King's Excuse, please. We're 1 buiv settling our labor and man agement problems and haven't had time yet to make enough guns, ships, planes and tanks to fight you effectively. . ""We'll appreciate It enorm ously If you'll give us tlma to tot all theso details out of the way before you start shooting . TN a world of sportsmen, that would be a sporting proposi tion, and might easily be ac cepted. But war-makers, un fortunately, ARENT SPORTS MEN. ' They seem to Insist on hitting when and where their adversary Is weakest. XXANY of the puzzled public 7 have sons In the armed forces and are wondering If fail ure' to provide modern arms for them In adequate volume will 4 b taken humanely Into con sideration by Hitler when he gets ready to start whatever he has In mind to start. ' This trying thought adds to th public's puzzlement and un easiness. ' DECISION DELAYED : REDDING, Calif., March 21 OP) Superior Judge Albert F. Ross deferred decision today In the suit of the, Redding Auto motive Service association, a group of automobile dealers, for an Injunction against tho AFL Machinists' union and the Red ding Automotive Employees' as sociation, an Independent union, to prevent picketing. The War 25 Years Aqo By The Associated Press ; March 29, 1916 Russians mash German defenses near Riga. . CAUSES MEET OF NEW BOARD Dykstra Says Mediation Group "Open for Busi ness" When Wanted WASHINGTON. March 25 (UP) President Roosevelt's new de fense mediation board began functioning today and Chairman Clarence A. Dykstra called upon labor and Industry to subordin ate purely private or personal Interests to the good of the na tion. - The 11-man agency organized at a two-hour session after a strike was called at th Bethle hem corporation plant at Beth lehem, Pa., and aa Increasing signs of labor unrest appeared In other Industries working on important . preparedness and British air contracts. After re ceiving from labor and defense aides a report on all current In dustrial disputes, Dykstra an nounced the board was "open for business." No Authority The board haa no authority to Intervene In labor disputes un less requested to do so by the labor department or Its concilia tion service. Dykstra said no such request was made today. He would not comment on pro posals In congress to expand the board's authority In this direc tion, saying "sufficient for the moment Is the responsibility Im posed upon us" by the executive order under which the agency was created. Dykstra said tha board would not meet again until the first can la certified to It by the labor department. William H. Davis of New York, a represent ative of the public, was named vie chairman of tha agency, and Ernest P. Marsh, who has been serving as liaison man be tween th conciliation service and tha office of production managemeolaavaa, selected as fvniimmry vxecuuvv secretary. Farmers Bill Approved By Senate Group WASHINGTON, March 25 P Legislation which its author said would add "about $1,000,000,000 a year" to farmers', income through higher government loans was opproved today by the senate agriculture committee. The author, Senator Bank head (D-Ala.), said the bill was Intended to place farmers "near er a parity with labor and In dustry." The 13 senators attending to day's committee session. Bank head said, were unanimous in approval. Loan Plan" Bankhead said his bill aimed at assuring producers of cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and rice a "parity or fair exchange price" for their products through loans designed to serve as a "floor un der market prices." . Bankhead said that the gov ernment loan would represent "full parity price less the amount of soil conservation payments." As an example, he said, the present "parity price for cotton Is 19.87 cents a pound while soil conservation pay ments amount to 1.37 cents. Thus tha loan price under this bill would be 141 cents a pound The proposed government loan on wheat would be (1.09 cents a bushel, and on corn 71.2 cents a bushel. Willkie Hopes Democracies MONTREAL, March 29 (UP) Wendell L. Willkie, ending a short Canadian speaking tour, told 20,000 cheering Montrealers tonight that "when this war is over I hope we will all be joined In a union of the great democra tic states to see that this menace may never come again." The statement was made In a brief speech at Windsor station where he and Mrs. Willkie boarded a train which left for New York at 10 p. m., ending their two-day visit in Toronto and Montreal. Causa of Liberty - "I have dedicated my life in these times to do all I can to arouse the people in the cause of liberty and its preservation in this world," the 1940 Ui S. re publican presidential candidate told the crowd In farewell. Last night Willkie addressed Number 13 - jMyl0-M.I0Ujipr -W Zv ! teas., l.?9tr-JIUBIA UMlbl --"9T(mW LV W&Lwmrif7iS "n-e"T : , aWimitjgt 5ge!!!?!lW ..,24. mi, -. g-LUXIMiO00jp tfffflTlV WWiesSy I We . week t mtpilffnm: illlllt ltziCMoslLOvI5iAT T I FRANCE rCSCmffiHHE? " -T Oct I. IM and V7 r- Mey ieee. tWOfWy SHHlyj1 AUSTRIA H March 14. F tW ! '."' jrC. ' - N Msr.lt. 1911 ITTHI I IflElila-j L, -Iia.au iMu.r.1 V J - XT ti I VUeSiLAV No-. 23, 1940 f I Spain linked It a km suxe shI n inn Franco ewfr g crH "It 6IS.MANY S ACQUISITIONS ly Milrtary Ceaaeit j ly Diplemetlc Cseeyisr rmmTii, oipietic ') V :k. ... , : ', '; Probably opening the way to another nasi luce mi. Yugoslavia, nation No. 13 to fall under German domination, may bring a turning point in Hitler's luck, or may be Just on mot of his conquests, shown ea the map. Inset shows how Germany and bar controlled areas, includ ing lengthy Norway, with a total population topping 200 million and a combined area of 172.000 square miles, would fit in the United States (treat 3,02.7lt square miles). DIES IN BLAST Chemical Works Blows Up; 12 Workers Are Injured ; Plant Lost PORTLAND, Or., March 29 (-A terrific blast at 0:39 a. m. today leveled th recently completed R. N. Chipman Chem ical company factory hare and killed one workman, Harry G. Ray, 82, Portland. i - The plant was being convert ed to. th production of ex plosive chemicals but held no defense contracts. . At least a dozen others were Injured, among them Ralph Chipman, local manager. He suffered a fractured ankle and cut. Wife Watches Ray's wife, standing near their trailer home a short dis tance away, said she saw the body of a man blown at least 100 feet in the air through a wall. Firemen presumed it was her husband, who succumbed to burns and . multiple injuries shortly after being removed to a hospital. The trailer was de molished but Mrs. Ray escaped injury. Ray was a construction workman who had been re tained by the factory after the plant was finished. - The factory, 90 by 190 feet ground dimensions, was a total loss, according to Fire Marshal (Continued on Page Two) County Iload Uonds Paid Klamath county on Tuesday finished liquidation of its $400, 000 road bond issue of 1922, when a check for $99,000 was sent to the Chase National bank of New York. This was the final principal payment on the 1922 issue. At the same time, $9000 was paid on principal of the 1929 bond issue, according to County Treasurer Chester Langslet. The treasurer also sent inter est on a school district No. 1 bond issue. for Union of When War Ends a mass meeting In Toronto and today he made several brief speeches here, stressing Britain's urgent need for ships. He also visited two war plants where ha was shown what generally are regarded as military secrets. Speaking before the Canadian club, Willkie, whose reception in Canada rivaled that given the British king and queen in 1939, called upon French - Canadian workers to give ."even their lives" to aid Great Britain's cause.! He said that Britain's most vital need was ships until the empire obtained superiority In the air. He ! said that the test is whether the democratic enter prise system can out-produce the totalitarian countries. Willkie visited the Vlckers plant and the Canadian Pacific shipbuilding yard lata today. - Lucky or L'nlucky i' a -vow : iHuiflnmTmr -l l All-Star Band Selected for Music Fete An all-star band was chosen from the music groups of coun ty schools at the county music festival held Tuesday at the Al tamont Junior high school. Represented In the band are Altamont, Bonanza, Gilchrist, Bly. Henley, Chiloquin. Merrill and Malin. The program opened with an address by County 6chool Su perintendent Fred Peterson. The - musicians from various schools "did their stuff" and th all-star , selections were mad. . Following is the all-star band: Clarinets, solos and firsts Gordon Wynant, Jack Hutton, Pat Mitchell, Lottie McDonald, Betty Brewer; Fred Spolek, Dorothy Dixon, Margie Dehl inger. Second Robert Trotman, Dorothy Smith, Kathryn O'Donaghue, Helen Suty, Lor raine Richardson, Pearl Bow ers. Mary Cile McMillan, Patty Richardson, Elvine Byers. Third Bernice Gehring, Violet Mo rande, Madeline Shreiner, Mary Lou O'Conner, Helen Smith. Saxophones, firsts Jean Flury, Carol Kandra. Rosie Suty. Second Betty Lou Neese, Ada Giacomelll, Lenore McMillan. Mabel McMillan, Garret Dean Hilyard. Flutes Dennis O'Conner. Alto horns, firsts Wanda Colvin, Buddy Bickers, Billy Alcorn, Stanley Dawson. Sec ond Elizabeth Donehy, Joyce Rowe. Coronets, solos and first Roy Buell, Leon Hembreek, Arelen Allen, Glen Haskins, Mildred Teare, Dale Smith, Russell Saunders. Second Claire Taylor, Earl Tabor, Earl McGaughey, Paul Fairclo, Ma rion Risley, Don RaUiff. Third Nina Sue Ternlman, Noel Deetz, John Loosley, Tommy Hopkins. Baritones Howard Wynant, Bob Norris, Truman Hall, Beu lah Edgar, Melba Holbrook, Wayne Varnum. Basses Don Smith, Douglas Clement, Vincent Zumr, Gordon Fruits. String bass Frank Mel ser. Bass vDrum Janice McCul lorn. Snare drums Betty Robert son! Iris Bradbury, Billy Lee Moran, Bob Short. Trombones, first Charles Spolek, Billy Robertson, Fred Meiser, Fred Beymer. Second Elmer Burk, Margaret Murphy. (Continued on Page Two) 5-Year-Old Folia Burglar SALEM, Ore., March 29 (U.R) Police today revealed how five-year-old Dolores Plcha of Salem single-handedly foiled a burglary at her home. The tiny girl saw a long pole groping through the win dow of her mother's bedroord as a thief tried to lift a purse off tha bed. Delores grabbed the pole and took it to her mother. "This fell through the win dow," she said. The would-be thief was not caught. for Hitler? AID BILL SENT TO PRESIDENT Plane Carries Papers to F. D. R., on Vacation In Southern Waters WASHINGTON, March 25 VP) Vice President Wallace and Speaker Raybum signed the 17,000,000,000 British aid . bill today, completing congressional action on me measure. Wallace signed , the measure at 12:48 p. m., 41 minutes after Raybum had affixed his sig nature., The bill was immediately sent back to the house .where th enrolling clerk was to deliver it to the White House. . At the Whit House officials said the bill will be flown to Miami, Fla., aboard a commer cial plane leaving Washington at 3:49 p. m. (EST), and arriv ing at Miami in late evening. From there it will be flown by special plane to the president. now on a vacation cruise, for his signature. The bill will be carried by a postal inspector in a pouch along with other White House mall, x Only a partliamentary tech nicality kept the bill from be ing on its way south yesterday soon after the senate gave it the overwhelming approval of a e7-to-8 vote. The house, how ever, had adjourned before the senate acted and the rules re quire that it be in session when the speaker signs legislation. Low Airplane Decapitates Field Worker ROBERTSDALE. Ala., March 29 IP) An airplane swooping low across a field decapitated a 39-year-old mother here today and then flew away toward Florida. Sheriff W, R. Stuart said Mrs. Robert Phillips was kiUed about noon in a 40-acre turnip field where she had been working with several other persons. He said Mrs. Phillips was' one of several who fled when the plane roared across the field. Others fell to the ground to escape injury. A piece of the plane's tail was found in the field and fellow workers said the woman apparently was struck by the tail, rather than the propellor. There was no way to tell if the pilot knew he had struck some one. The plane, which witnesses said appeared about noon and circled after the accident, was declared by State Patrolman H. A. Whitley to have been from the US naval air station at Pen sacola, Fla. Sheriff Stuart said he was checking both private and mil itary fields in nearby Florida and Alabama areas. Mrs. Phillips is survived by her husband and several chil dren. ' - Pickets Riot At Be th lehe m Plant JUGOSLAVS ON ALERT WHILE . LEADERS SIGN Opposition to Tripartite ' Pact Confined Mostly To Serbian Provinces VIENNA, March 25 (UP) Jugoslavia joined the axis tri power alliance Tuesday under a promise she would ' be spared from a nazl military occupation. German quarters then boasted the -way was clear for "military action in the near future." , Trouble-beset Jugoslavia tied her destinies in the German-Italo-Japanes "new order" at noon in the great yellow hall of Belevedere palace in what the nazis called a major upset for the "Balkan intrigues" of both the United State and Great Britain. BELGRADE, Wednesday, March 28 (UP) Equipped with machine guns and tear gas. troops and police throughout Jugoslavia today were on the alert for any disturbances in protest against the nation's ad herence to -the tripartite pact such as those reported yesterday In Serbian province. . . The capital - was - quiet, but ominously so. Cafe usually open all night closed early last night, symptomatic of a general feeling that something waa due to hap pen. Many persons of means have sent thai families to th sneun- tainoua. country Of cesOral.-Sr. bla as a precaution... -. 4 Larger centers all over th na tion- Were quiet. - Opposition to signing of' the - (Continued -on Pag Two) Woman Bows To Impulse; " Ends in Jail MINNEAPOLIS, March 29 (JP Patrolmen Joseph Kolars and E. R. Jones were standing on a street corner, at peace with the world, when a woman, svelte and about 28, stepped up with the warning "Get ready to pinch me,", launched a k i c k against Kolars' shin. ' "Ow!" yelped Kolars. "What's the matter,, lady? Have you been, drinking? What's your name." The only answer was another kick on Kolars' tibia. "Now," yelled the grieved and indignant Kolars, "I am going to pinch yuh." With Jones' aid he got his as sailant to a call box and stun moned the wagon, but not before they had u join in repulsing another assault on the shinbones. Held in the city jail today the woman refused to say who she was or where she lived. She had only one answer to ques tions: "I've always wanted to kick a cop in the shins." In municipal court today, however, the worn n gave her name as Miss Ivy Sdhleich, 28. of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty to a charge of drunkenness and paid a $9 fine. ' Two Killed As Planes Crash COALINGA, Calif., March 29 VP) Two army air corps lieuten ants were killed today when their planes collided in mid-air while practicing landings at the Coalinga army airport. One plana fall in the city, grazed the roof of a house, knocked the porch off another and half buried itself under the house. The other fell a half mile away on th outskirts of town. -The dead were Lieut. George K. Williams. 24, of Indianapolis, a reserve officer in the 99th air base squadron; and Lieut. Charles J. Engeman, 23, of Cleveland, attached to the 77th air base squadron.' MERCURY HITS 71 PORTLAND, Or., March 29, (UP) Today was Portland's warmest of the year. The mer cury soared to 71 degrees, one degree above th previous high of March 19 and 10. Jngulste Cop Writes Ticket BURLINGAME, Calif.. March 29 (UP) Patrolman Charles Thomas stopped John Lee. Chinese, for failing to observe an arterial sign. Lee said several things to Thomas, all In Chinese. "I don't think I'd continue using that kind of language," Thomas warned. Thomas wrote out a ticket and explained in fairly good Chinese he had learned the language while serving with the 19th U. S. Infantry at Tientsin. - Lee said nothing more. GRAZIANI QUITS AFRICAN POST Itatfan General "Resijns" Favoring Gariboldi, Blitzkrieg Authority . ROME, March 25 (UP) Mar shal Rodolfo Graziani. Italian commander-in-chief ' in Africa, "resigned" today and relinquish ed the remnants of his defeated army-to Gen. Italo Gariboldi, an authority on modem blitz krieg tactics. The replacement of Graziani generally waa held to mark in auguration of a new phase of axis fighting in Africa, with Eur opean strategy and lightning mechanized tactics replacing co lonial methods and native troops. . : Graziani relinquished posts as commander-in-chief in - -Africa, Governor of Libya and chief 'df the army staff. Gariboldi uc ceeded him in the first two posts. Gen. Mario Roetta, vice chief of the army staff, moved up a step ta take .the latter post. - -' Not "Unexpected '' The shakeup in the high com mand biggest since the retire ment of marshal Pietro Badog liO - because of Italian failure against, Greece was not unex pected. .The victorious British offensive led by Gen. Sir Archi bald Wavell had smashed Graz ziani's army and conquered all of eastern Libya, inflicting more than 200,000 casualties on the Italians. Gariboldi, besides being an authority on modern strategy, has had experience in east Af rica and recently was chief of staff to the governor-general of Tripolitania. s Roatta had much to do with the latest building up of Italian mechanized forces on the Greek front. He is a close personal friend of ' Premier Mussolini, played an important part in I talc-French armistice negotia tions and has attended several Italo-German military confer ences. Governor To Sign Tax Bill On Cigarettes SALEM, Ore., March 25 (UP) Governor Charles A. Sprague to day announced he would sign the cigarette tax bill passed by the last session of the Oregon legislature. "I do not plan to veto the measure. It will become law," the governor said. Some ob servers had predicted the chief executive would kill the bill be cause he had asked the law makers not to pass any new tax legislation. The measure was approved in the final confused hours of the session, but sent to the gover nor's office without the signa ture of Senate President Dean Walker. Walker did not sign it until today. Speed Limit Set Another bill expected to be signed soon by the governor Is one putting a speed limit of 95 miles an hour on most Oregon highways. The present law pro vides that the arresting officer must prove that a motorist is driving unsafely, but the new law will place the burden of proof on the driver if he Is going over 55. The measure also gives the highway commission the right to designate higher speed on (Continued on Page Two) STRIKERS FLIP MORE THAN 40 WORKERS' CARS State Police Mustered in Second Day Disorder ' While Work Continues BETHLEHEM. Pa.. March 35 (UP) More than 150 state mo tor policemen, armed with riot sticks, cleared the entire six mile struck Bethlehem Steel corporation plant area tonight following widespread disorder in which more than 40 automo. biles were overturned. - Eighteen state troopers', on. horseback cleared the company' six main gates. The remainder spread throughout the area, pro hibiting loitering. . ' They were brought her , tow night on orders of Gov. Arthur H. James as result of continued disorders in a two-day strike by the steel workers organizing committee (CIO). The strike. called in protest against an al leged company union election, hampered work on millions of dollars worth of defense coo tracts. ' Can Flipped More than 3000 person en circled the southern edge of Sse plant when the state police ar rived and drove them from tha area. In their flight, the picket overturned 20 automobile In a parking lot, facing the 13-rtory Bethlehem Steel executive of fice building. Earlier in the dav. five nollco jorien andvtiva atrikefsrwfer Itat jured in numerous outbreak around the plant. . .. A band of striker escaped northward on the Minsi trail bridge, overturning an addi tional 20 automobiles, parked -there by workers who entered the plant this evening. Two of the machines ' lay lengthwise, on their tops, block ing the road. . - L . . . j .: Into River ' ." t Six other cars were pushed into the mud flats of the Lehigh river. . ... State troopers moved into the scene in the immediate vicinity of the plant shortly after negoti ations were started to settle the strike. Strike Director Howard T. Curtiss announced the SWOC had agreed to meet officials of the Employes Representation plan, which the CIO charges ia a company union, at 10 a. ra. to morrow. Gov. Arthur H. James from Harrisburg sent a telegram to Clarence A. Dykstra, chair man of the U. S. mediation board . ' at Washington calling for. in ' mediate action. Curtiss said the SWOC-ERP conference was arranged by W. L. Trumbauer, management rep resentative in charge of indus trial relations. Curtiss added Trumbauer refused a SWOC re- -quest two federal mediators her) be present at the conference. - James revealed a public safety board had been formed at Beth lehem under direction of State Motor Police Commissioner Lynn G. Adams. The board will coordinate the activities of state, police. City of Bethlehem po lice and the sheriff's office. Proclamation The governor also issued a proclamation closing indefinite ly more than 100 taprooms and state liquor stores in the strike area. . Groups of state police, re cruited from other sections of the state, were arriving steadily and by early tonight approxi mately 130 were stationed at the Bethlehem barracks. Formation of the safety board followed two outbreaks of vio lence at the Saucon gate of the sprawling mills in which two police cars were overturned, in juring seven policemen. Five were treated as hospitals. In cluding Patrolman Jack Demcr, (Continued on Page Two) t News Index City Briefs Page 9 Comics and Story Pag . 8 . Courthouse Records Pag 4 Editorials Pg 4 High School News Psge Information ... Pag ' S Market, Financial Pag 10 Midland Empire News .. Page t Pattern ...Pag S Sports P I